Wireless SOC Design Verification Engineer - San Diego, United States
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
Own end-to-end verification across the N1 wireless chip and its successor subsystems in San Diego.
About the role
As a Wireless SOC Design Verification Engineer, you will own verification scope end-to-end on each project, from test planning through signoff. The role focuses on wireless chips powering connectivity across iPhone devices, covering subsystems such as power management, CPU, PCIe, bus fabric, and peripherals.
What you'll do
- Own verification end-to-end from test planning to signoff across block-level and top-level SOC integration. - Verify subsystems including the Power Management Unit, CPU subsystem, on-chip debug infrastructure, PCIe, bus fabric, boot and secure-boot sequencing, and peripherals such as SPI and UART. - Apply simulation, formal verification, or hybrid approaches based on design requirements. - Verify power intent using UPF across assigned IP and subsystem scopes. - Apply and evaluate AI-assisted verification approaches across test generation, debug, and verification closure.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree. - Expertise in SystemVerilog coding. - Expertise in UVM methodology.
Nice to have
- Hands-on verification experience with PCIe, Bus Fabric, NOC, AHB, and AXI-based bus architectures in a UVM environment. - Experience verifying IP or top-level integration for a WiFi or Bluetooth SOC. - Experience with formal verification. - In-depth knowledge and experience working with low power design, UPF integration, boot-up, power-cycling, and HW/FW interaction verification. - Experience taping out large SOC systems with embedded processor cores.
Skills: SystemVerilog, UVM, PCIe, WiFi, Bluetooth SoC
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 67-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1268
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Median days open
67 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (1268 roles · 96 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 55 | 1268 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 133 | 3359 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 7 d | 67 d (−60 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: SystemVerilog, UVM, PCIe, WiFi, Bluetooth SoC
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 120 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 93 open roles · median 66 d
- AMD · 92 open roles · median 56 d
- Synopsys · 67 open roles · median 42 d
- SiFive · 56 open roles · median 80 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 50 open roles · median 132 d
How we counted: 1268 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 96 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.